disaster Archive
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American Red Cross Advisor returns from Japan
Posted on March 24, 2011 | No CommentsThis video is from Nan Buzard, American Red Cross senior director of international response and programs, who just returned from a week long mission in Japan where she helped assess the humanitarian needs and advised the Japanese Red Cross on longer-term recovery plans. -
Pakistan: This is real. This is now. You can make a difference.
Posted on August 27, 2010 | 2 CommentsIn Pakistan today, 17 million people have been affected by what is now the worst flooding in the country's history. Over 1.23 million houses have been damaged. at least 1,500 have already died, and more than 2,000 have been injured. The video slide show below will give you some idea of how the people of Pakistan have been affected, and how the Red Cross Red Crescent has reacted quickly to provide assistance to those in the greatest need. -
Pakistan sees worst flooding in over 80 years
Posted on August 24, 2010 | No CommentsThe Pakistan Red Crescent Society, with the support of its Movement partners; the IFRC, ICRC along with many other National Societies is responding to the record monsoon floods of 2010. As the people of Pakistan continues to suffer the effects of severe flooding caused by torrential monsoon rains, the volunteers and staff of the Pakistan Red Crescent Society are in high gear to assist those in greatest need. -
Bangladesh Red Crescent Society: always ready, always there
Posted on August 23, 2010 | 4 CommentsThe Bangladesh Red Crescent Society is proud very of their volunteers. Day-after-day the number of volunteers of the Red Crescent continues to grow; at present there are more than one hundred thousand volunteers. As the number of challenges increases, so to does the commitment of the volunteers of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society. -
Polish Red Cross tackles the consequences of the floods
Posted on July 6, 2010 | No CommentsSince the very beginning of the floods emergency in Poland, the Polish Red Cross has been hard at work to support those in greatest need. The first action took place... -
Kyrgyzstan: Red Crescent responds to floods and landslides
Posted on June 17, 2010 | No CommentsOn 3 June 2010, a heavy rainstorm hit southern Kyrgyzstan leading to multiple landslides. The Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan disaster response team was immediately deployed to the area. The... -
Haiti: Three months on and the rains have begun
Posted on April 12, 2010 | 2 CommentsThree months have passed and the challenges in Haiti continue to grow - Recent heavy rains and their mud-soaked aftermath have once again turned the spotlight back onto Haiti. As Iain Logan, Head of Relief Operations in Haiti for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , says: “Our work has only just begun here. We've climbed to the top of a hill only to see the mountain looming ahead.” -
Haiti response summit: Remarks by Jean-Pierre Taschereau
Posted on February 15, 2010 | 2 CommentsJean-Pierre Taschereau, the Senior Manager of the International Emergency Response team for the Canadian Red Cross returned from Haiti on February 7th. He was deployed to Haiti one day after... -
Haiti: ‘My home town was destroyed in less than a minute’
Posted on February 2, 2010 | No CommentsNikenson Fabre (29) has an important role at the Finnish Red Cross mobile clinic in Port-au-Prince. This Haitian National Society Red Cross volunteer translates for the clinic staff what the... -
Profile of a volunteer: Stanley Clairmont
Posted on February 1, 2010 | 4 CommentsStanley Clairmont was washing his clothes for university the next day when a massive earthquake struck his home town of Port-au-Prince in Haiti. Despite government reports that the earthquake only... -
What is an ERU?
Posted on January 29, 2010 | No CommentsDuring a disaster such as the Haiti earthquake, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies deploys Emergency Response Units (ERUs). The current earthquake response is the largest... -
Diary of a Red Cross worker
Posted on January 17, 2010 | No CommentsCanadian Red Cross Haiti Program Manager Miriam Castaneda has been living and working in Haiti since September 2009. She was in her apartment in Port au Prince when the earthquake... -
Global family must help save lives and rebuild futures
Posted on January 14, 2010 | 2 CommentsI am deeply saddened by the news of this terrible disaster in Haiti. As a Goodwill Ambassador for the Red Cross Society of China and as a strong supporter of... -
PHOTOS: Aftermath of Haiti earthquake
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No CommentsYesterday’s earthquake in Haiti, which reached 7.3 on the Richter scale, primarily affected the cities of Port-au-Prince, Carrefour and Jacmel, all located in the West Province area, an estimated population... -
Faces of the tsunami: Teungku
Posted on December 25, 2009 | No CommentsAlmost five years since the tsunami disaster, the Red Cross Red Crescent has helped hundreds of thousands of survivors take significant steps along the road to recovery. Teungku Azhari, 55...
